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Since I upgraded my laptop to OS X Lion, I was not able to connect to my iMac (still running OS X Snow Leopard) anymore. Neither with Screen Sharing nor with direct file access. A quick search in the web couldn’t help me further so I decided to investigate in the issue by myself. The first starting point was to look into the Console and see if there where any error logged while trying to connect to the iMac.

The following error occurred repeatedly in the file. Another search showed me the sources of mDNS but that wouldn’t help me out on that topic.

Today, I tried to integrate the DiscussionPlugin into my Trac 0.10.3 sandbox. But I must notice, that the DiscussionPlugin seems to be incompatible with the version and/or the WebadminPlugin. The discussion plugin where not found several times and disturbed the webadmin. So my last chance was to uninstall the plugin from the plugins folder. Tomorrow, I will try to install it on the python path to make it globally available. Maybe it works better this way.

To use samba with winbind for your pam authentication, you have to edit the process file (e.g. apache2) under /etc/pam.d/ and add the following lines:

#%PAM-1.0

auth required pam_winbind.so

account required pam_winbind.so

If you are already using a configuration, you can add the winbind authentication by simply changing “required” to “sufficient”. The order of the plugins in the file matters to the order of authentication.

The following configuration tries to authenticate against winbind and if this fails, against the unix module.

mod_auth_pam is not supported and/or developed any longer and the latest available version works only with apache 2.0.x. The new apache 2.2 uses a new authentication mechanism and the old mod_auth_pam does not work, if you only install it to your local apache and use it with the follow configuration:

AuthPAM_Enabled On

AuthPAM_FallThrough Off

AuthType Basic

AuthName"Testingarea"

You have to turn off the new apache 2.2 basic authentication to get the module up and running. You can do this in two different ways. The first one is to disable the whole module, the second and better one is to disable it through a directive.

For the first solution, you can use the tool a2dismod to disable the module mod_auth_basic.

For the second way, you have to add this lines to the configuration above.

Yesterday, I installed Debians current stable version 3.1 rev 4 ‘sarge’ on a vmware. After the installation, I tried to install python2.4, apache2.2, subversion1.4.2 …

I could install the python2.4 package, but the package python was only available for python2.3. After creating the links (e.g. python -> python2.4) manually, I tried to get the apache2.2 package. To use debians apt for this job, I had to add the testing sources to the apt list. After this step, he tried to upgrade my system with a new kernel and some new tools. Enough for me! ;) I went to the debian package page and downloaded the testing net boot cd.